Since the release of our SCOM Connector for Microsoft Teams, we've been blown away by the positive feedback and uptake from customers. The connector has allowed businesses to connect their Operations Manager environment with Microsoft Teams, giving them a single pane of glass view and anywhere access to their IT operations. We're happy to announce that we've just released a new version of the connector, which introduces some significant updates to the functionality!

Let’s admit it: end-to-end testing is a technical challenge. How do you make features testable? What testing framework should you use? When should you run your test suite? There are so many things to learn and consider. At Checkly, we want to ease end-to-end monitoring so that you can focus on shipping excellent software instead of figuring out how you monitor and test it. But before getting into our latest feature addition, let me answer the above questions.

After some drawbacks we are very happy today to finally release Icinga for Windows v1.10.0! The past weeks we have spent a lot of time to polish this release, test many different aspects and optimize the user experience in general. Please make sure to read the upgrading docs carefully, before upgrading to v1.10.0. Otherwise, your installation might not work as expected, or Icinga for Windows might not load anymore.

We at Qovery are excited to announce that G2 has named Qovery as a Summer 2022 High Performer in the following categories: Continuous Deployment / Environment as a Service. G2 is the world’s largest tech marketplace. The High Performer Award recognizes companies with high customer satisfaction ratings relative to their market presence.

For the second year running, CRN readers have voted N-able as the Number 1 RMM software in the Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. The ARC Awards are one of the most prestigious honors in the IT industry, highlighting vendors’ commitment to partner satisfaction and reinforcing their dedication to channel partners through nurturing and growing partner relationships.

We are happy to announce that file provisioning for Grafana Alerting has arrived in Grafana 9.1. This feature enables you to configure your whole alerting stack using files on disk, as you may already do with data sources or dashboards. The Terraform Grafana provider has also been updated to allow the provisioning of Grafana Alerting resources.

In Enterprise Search 8.4, hybrid ranking for vector similarity is now available from the main querying endpoint, commonly known as the _search Elasticsearch endpoint. Introduced as a standalone query endpoint in 8.0, vector querying functionality (specifically, kNN vector similarity) greatly simplifies and accelerates the process of crafting and issuing queries that leverage the native vector querying capabilities of Elasticsearch along with the tried-and-tested traditional scoring algorithms.

With the Grafana 8.5 release, we introduced the concept of service accounts. Now with the Grafana 9.1 release, we’re making service accounts generally available. This is a project that came out of technical necessity, but it has given us the opportunity to reflect on API tokens and machine-to-machine interaction across Grafana Labs.